¦ fOR BARTLEY ¦ pt ^ vW . ^ — jtfho Is Said to Have Coat fcbraska $ 550 , 000 Un- : conditionally Fros . &amp;amp; AB GIFT 1 * B 0 M 007 . 8 ATAOE drinks the Ends of Justice Met nd Hartley Not So Very SinfaL Anyhow . » fn , Neb ., Jan . 1 . —Qorewior . i has granted an unconditional i to Joseph S . Hartley , former rensurer , who five years ago was ced to twenty years in the penlry on conviction of having emil $ 201 , 000 of state funds . Th 3 j -went Into eeffct from the molt was delivered to Mrs . Hartley I governors private secretary . It resented to Warden Davis at the tatlary a half later , and at 0 p . ( th his family and lawyer , Barttas taken in a carriage to his In this city . To newspaper men Id he had no other immediate than to spend the first day of the [ year with his family . too Happy to Discuss tho Future . ) would not admit that he had any latlon that the pardon was forthbg , hut said his Joy In the present * bis liberty was BO complete that id no desire or time...

WE ABE ALL DYNAMOS According to tho Views of Dr . Loeb , tho Chicago Unlvcntity Sccnttst . Chicago , Jan . 1 . —At the session of the Physiological Boclety Dr . . Taquea Dr . Jacques Loeb followed his paper on Monday with another in the same line of thought . He said his experiments in prolonging the existence of the lower forms of life led to the belief that the life of higher organisms is electro dynamic in its nature . He declared that probnbly foodstuffs and medicines were not vnlnnblc for tbelr individual properties , but for the quantity of positive or negative atoms of electricity they contained . In a word Dr . Loeb looks upon fcod and medicine as valuable for the sustenance of what he calls the human dynamo . I have come to the conclusion , said the speaker , that at least a part of the energies of foodstuffs are turned into electrical forces . Other papers were read by Drs . L . B . Mendel , J . T . Halsey , A . It Cusmiy and J . Erlander . It was said that while Dr . Loeb...

WILLNOTBEHURRIED Germany to Give Pratfdent Cat * tro Time to Find Out Just Where Ho Is At , THAT BE STANDS QUITE ALONE Anol That TJncle Sam Will Not . JDaek Him— Then Full Speed Ahead ! — Cubnn Nu « ••j tional Electiou . Berlin , . Tan . 1 . —t ntil Dr . 0 . SchmidtLeda , the Gorman minister to VcneBnela , arrives at Caracas , which will be about . Tan . 5 , nothing will be done by Herr veri Pilgrlm-Rnltiml , the Gertttan charge daffaires there , to press President Castro further . Pr . Schmidtt * aa beers instructions from the German government The carrying out of OSWALD voy mcnmoFcr . the successive steps outlined in these Instructions will end in coercive measures , which will probably be applied In four or five weeks . time if iniermediate efforts shall have failed In he meantime . It is possible , however , that events may shorten this period . Castro to Have Ample Time . In so much as Germany is possessed of the good will of the United States in this matter Baron von Richthofc...

WAR ON THE MERGER Declared by the Governors Who . Met at Helena , Mont ., to Confer . WILL BE A FIGHT TO A FINI 8 H Resolutions That Adopted— - ^ Power s Injunction Dissolved by Judge Lochren Helena . Mont , Jan . 1 . —A definite plan of action to defeat the proposed consolidation of the Northern Pacific , Great Northern mid Burlington railway systems has been unanimously agreed upon by the governors and attorneys general of seven northwestern states in which those roads have mileage . Legal action will be instituted Immediately iu Minnesota courts with this object in view , and to quote Attorney General Douglas , of Minnesota , The thing will be fought to a finish . Just how , when or where these suits will be brought neither Governor Van Sant nor Attorney General Douglas would state . The conference adjourned after adopting resolutions condemning the proposed merger as contrary to sound public policy and pledging support to any proper legal action which may lie brought to test its...